Most hundreds scored by a batsman in an ICC World Cup tournament (male)

India opener Rohit Sharma scored five hundreds in nine matches – at an average of 81 runs per innings – at the 2019 Cricket World Cup in England and Wales between 5 June and 6 July.

Previous record holder Kumar Sangakkara hit four centuries in seven matches for Sri Lanka at the 2015 Cricket World Cup in Australia and New Zealand. He averaged 108.20 runs per innings. Sangakkara was the first player to score four consecutive One-Day International hundreds.

Sharma’s centuries came against South Africa on 5 June (122 not out), Pakistan on 16 June (140), and in consecutive matches against England on 30 June (102), Bangladesh on 2 July (104) and Sri Lanka on 6 July (103).

Sharma’s 648 runs at the 2019 World Cup put him third on the list of top run-scorers at a single tournament, after Sachin Tendulkar’s 673 runs in 11 matches in 2003 and Matthew Hayden’s 659 runs in 11 matches (10 innings) in 2007. By comparison, Tendulkar scored just one ton during the 2003 tournament, while Hayden made three hundreds in 2007.